Wes Holtermann’s fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Holtermann has received fellowships and support from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He is a gardener, living and working in Berkeley, California.
Extinction
Summer 2024
The Tortoise and the Tortoise
By this time, the world had been exhausted, eaten and eaten. All its creatures had been tucked in, and the land was at rest. The hills breathed. The tender hands […]
2013 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize
Winter 2014
Hurricane
2013 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-up Before the hurricane, we shook. We went to work and walked dogs, minded our own business basically, and shook like leaves. I thought […]
Wes Holtermann
Wes Holtermann is a graduate of the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He lives in Berkeley, California. His story “Hurricane” was a runner-up for the 2013 Kenyon […]